New Apple M5 Pro and M5 Max leak reveals specs in full

Even though Apple officially showed off the M5 Pro and M5 Max yesterday alongside its new MacBook Pro models, only some of their specifications were revealed. These are usually confirmed by listings on Geekbench and other benchmarking platforms. However, a leak from Baidu has now shed light on both chips’ innards. 

Apple M5 Pro

• 6 Super CPU cores with 4.61 GHz boost clock, 16 MB L3 cache
• 12 Medium CPU cores with 4.38 GHz boost clock, 16 MB L3 cache
• GPU boost clock: 1.62 GHz. 
• 24 MB memory cache
• Up to 64 GB LPDDR5x-9600 RAM supported

Apple M5 Max

• 6 Super CPU cores with 4.61 GHz boost clock, 16 MB L3 cache
• 12 Medium CPU cores with 4.38 GHz boost clock, 16 MB L3 cache
• GPU boost clock: 1.62 GHz. 
• 48 MB memory cache
• Up to 128 GB LPDDR5x-9600 RAM supported

Apple confirmed the M5 Pro and M5 Max use what it calls Fusion architecture. It is essentially TSMC's SoIC-MH 2.5D packaging tech that connects a CPU tile and a GPU tile with a high-speed interconnects. Performance-wise the M5 Pro and M5 Max are tipped to offer up to a 10% increase in single-threaded workloads, 20% in multi-threaded applications, and the GPU will be about 25% faster. 

Power consumption is expected to stay more or less the same across generation in single-threaded workloads. The extra CPU cores will, however, result in the M5 Pro and M5 Max guzzling more power when all cores are stressed.